"We rise by lifting others." -Robert Ingersoll 

" All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angle mother." -Abraham Lincoln

" The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." 

     -William A. Ward 

" The most dangerous risk of all- the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later." -Randy Komisar 

"A river cuts through rock not because of its power, but because of its persistence." -Jim Watkins

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants." -Epictetus 

"What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it's supposed to be." -Socrates 

"Wise men speak because they have something to say. Fools [speak] because they have to say something." -Plato 

"May your choices reflect your hope. Not your fears." -Nelson Mandela 

"Come what may and love it." -Joseph B. Wirthlin